Big 5 Traits Of Personality Traits

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Exploring Personality Traits The Big Five Personality Test Personality is a wide field of study that is mandatory for psychology. It allows one to observe how someone’s lifetime goals could be related to even the most simplistic thoughts. There have been many types of tests made to assess people’s personalities whether it be for personality disorders, to evaluate the progress in therapy and see if an effect is being made or even to assess theories. An important test that has been used for a few decades deals with the Big Five trait theory. The Big Five trait theory was derived in the 1970s from two research groups, one group being made up of Lewis Goldberg and Warren Norman, and the other consisting of Robert McCrae and Paul Costa. The results…show more content…
I consider this section to be fairly accurate. I agree that I am less creative, down to earth, and conventional. Growing up I learned the “norms” to society, so as expected, I picked up on these ways, such as being polite. The other part that I agree with is having narrow interests. An example for this would be animals, I love animals but I am much more fond of dogs over cats, and horses over cows. I believe that everyone has some aspect of narrow-mindedness. The next section in the Big Five Personality Test is conscientiousness. Receiving a score of 67% for this section, with high scorers demonstrating strong organizational skills, reliability, and careful behavior, whereas low scorers are considered undependable and disorganized (John et al., 1999). I believe that the results I received for this trait are accurate. I only received 67%, it is not as strongly pointed toward high scorers, whereas the 24% I received in the open mindedness section is distinctly pointed toward low scorers. The only component I do not entirely agree with for this section is that I am not always organized. Since I have started university I have put in a…show more content…
Your parents and siblings can influence you at a young age, friends as well, once you get a bit older its teachers, coworkers, and so on. Personalities are shaped from the interaction between environment and inheritance, otherwise known as genetics. Many of the different aspects of personality will come from the environment you are in, although a fair amount of them are also through genes. Whether your personality traits are shaped from environment or heredity is similar to the nature versus nurture debate. From the personality traits in this psychology test, I believe four out of five of them to be developed from my environment. For the first one, being open-mindedness, I think it has come from my environment and slightly heredity. I am described as conventional, which was accurate, and I believe this to be true as a result of how I was raised, and the culture that I was brought into. I think this may be why I lack creativity because I never really had a chance to expand to the different ways of doing things. I also believe that I may lack creativity because of genetics. My mother, along with two of my sisters, all have a creative side to them and are strongly drawn towards making art. Those two sisters share the same father who was also very creative, a carpenter. However, my father has always been very math and book smart, along with my eldest sister who shares the same father. Perhaps that is
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